Far East Cynic

Brief summaries of the age we live in.

It is pretty astounding when you think about it. 243 years of American Democracy have come and gone – and the Republic has withered challenges that it has survived and prospered from. But the thing that most Americans failed to realize was, just how easy it could have been not

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Not a design flaw, but blatant misuse.

The other day, I had to the misfortune to read on another corner of the interwebs, the following bit of incredible stupidity. Referring to this article, describing Trump’s blatant abuse of executive power by claiming Executive Privilege on the entire Mueller report, the asshole in question had this to say:

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While I was out…….

Here it is, May 4th, and I have not made a post since New Years Eve 2018. It was an unplanned hiatus, I assure you. During the past 5 months I have: Been on the hunt for a new and better job. A job hunt brought about by a worthless

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A great insult

I took most of this past week off, primarily because I was not very motivated, and that lack of motivation will continue into the New Year. Of that I am quite confident. The Christmas holiday was pretty much as I expected with the S.O. doing her best to go through

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The week that was……

Or why this may be the last Christmas. I have not been writing a lot I know. It is because of two reasons: 1) I have been back and forth to Israel a couple of times this month and 2) I have been watching in abject horror at the actions

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The last great President

I made a point of getting home early today so I could watch the state funeral for George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States and probably the last President ever that will be able to be spoken of with the words, “great President”. It was with

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Descent into darkness – Part II

In my life I have seen or known of 12 Presidents. For a good deal of that time I was a reliable Republican voter. That is until George W. Bush came to office and let loose the worst instincts of the party , starting a foolish war in Iraq, a

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It’s all downhill from here…..

This has been a busy week, I am in the middle of a heavy travel schedule and have also been just in shock watching the “President” show the entire world how fundamentally unfit for the the job he is. If the last two weeks have not convinced you how totally

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Kaddish

Today, the funerals of Cecil and David Rosenthal were held.  Cecil Rosenthal, 59, and David Rosenthal, 54, both of Squirrel Hill, in Pittsburgh, were among the 11 people killed Saturday during a shooting at Tree of Life Congregation in Squirrel Hill.  During the course of this week, the remaining funerals

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This is as close to a mission statement that I can find.

I apologize for the lack of posts. I have been living out of a suitcase for the last 6 days and had to take delivery of a new CPAP machine before that. Starting this week I intend to resume my series on America’s descent into darkness. But for tonight I

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